Crash Bandicoot (Franchise) - TV Tropes. Crash Bandicoot is a video game series once seen as Sony Computer Entertainment's unofficial mascot and its answer to Mario and Sonic. Originally began under the auspices of Universal Interactive, it eventually became part of Sierra and then Activision. The games star the eponymous Crash Bandicoot, a genetically enhanced marsupial and failed experiment on behalf of Dr. Offers 50 GB of free storage space. Uploaded files are encrypted and only the user holds the decryption keys. Crash Team Racing. In this game, there are five colored gems: blue, red, green, yellow, and purple. Each of these gems is acquired by winning the corresponding gem cup. The Crash Bandicoot in-game model. His only texture was the spots on his back, but every vertex was lovingly placed by Jason. Neo Cortex, resident Mad Scientist and world conqueror, and more often than not the two wind up butting heads against one another, either for Crash to thwart Cortex's evil plans or just racing go- karts against one another. The games are mostly platform or action/adventure. The original three Play. Station games, developed by Naughty Dog, were purely linear 3. D platformers and became massively successful. The series was famed for its humorous cartoony tone (losing a life often forms an amusing slapstick death for Crash, and nearly all levels - and even some of the characters - have ridiculously Punny Names, for example). Naughty Dog followed the trilogy up with a racing spinoff, but before they could begin work on another platforming game, Executive Meddling forced them to move on to other franchises while the Crash series was handed to new developers and went multi- platform. Unfortunately, no single developer really stuck and the series ended up bouncing around for a while, which led to a lack of consistency. At first, the new developers tried to emulate Naughty Dog's style, but these games were ridiculed as soulless carbon copies. Starting with Crash Twinsanity, the fifth main series game, developers attempted to inject new life into the franchise by exaggerating the humor and giving the series a more self- aware vibe. Unfortunately, Twinsanity ended up being overly ambitious and the final product was rushed and poorly- received. The series finally found a consistent set of developers with Radical Entertainment, who made the divisive decision to dramatically redesign the entire cast and rewrite their personalities to feature a much larger amount of pop- culture based non sequitur humor spaced throughout gameplay chit- chat (though the older games were still referenced occasionally, so this wasn't technically a Continuity Reboot). After making a racing spinoff game, Radical took a swing at producing the sixth and seventh main entries in the series, Crash of the Titans and Crash: Mind Over Mutant. These games dropped the emphasis on platforming to instead focus on co- op melee combat and a . Radical began work on a full- fledged Continuity Reboot that would bring Crash more in line with his classic design, but then the entire studio got the ax and the franchise was regulated to mobile phone games. Luckily, though, these games sold remarkably well (with the last of the mobile games quietly reverting the characters back to their classic designs). After six years with no sign of life from the franchise, and just in time for his 2. Crash made his triumphant return to consoles in 2. Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, another game made by Naughty Dog. Shortly afterwards, it was announced that the original three Naughty Dog games will be receiving HD remakes for the Play. Station 4 developed by Vicarious Visions (the GBA games and Nitro Kart's developer) titled the N. Crash Bandicoot is a video game series once seen as Sony Computer Entertainment's unofficial mascot and its answer to Mario and Sonic. Originally began.Crash Bandicoot est un jeu de plates-formes dans lequel le joueur contrôle Crash Bandicoot qui doit traverser les trois îles Wumpa, vaincre son créateur, le. Sane Trilogy. The Crash franchise has a long history of crossing over with the Spyro the Dragon games. Their initial developers, Insomniac Games and Naughty Dog have been close allies for years. They worked on Spyro and Crash literally right next to each other, in the same room. Jak and Daxter and Ratchet & Clank have a similar relationship for the same reason. When a redesigned Spyro appeared in the new, wildly successful Skylanders franchise, it was only a matter of time before Crash followed suit. In Skylanders Imaginators, Crash and Cortex each have their own playable toys that unlock an extra Crash- themed level, and thanks to the toys' forward compatibility, they should remain playable in all future Skylanders games. Furthermore, Crash makes his Western Animation debut in the Netflix animated series, Skylanders Academy, Suddenly Voiced and with strong hints that Crash will be receiving his own animated series soon. Neo Cortex and Dr. Nitrus Brio create the Evolv- O- Ray, a device that can mutate any animal into a super- strong, hyper- intelligent warrior, and the Cortex Vortex, a brain manipulation device that can make anyone and anything a blind follower of Cortex's orders. One of their first experiments with the Evolv- O- Ray is Crash, a bandicoot snatched from the local island wilderness and chosen to serve as the leader of Cortex's army. However, the Cortex Vortex fails on Crash, and he is discarded as a failed specimen while Cortex and Brio prepare to experiment on Crash's love interest, Tawna. The next day, Crash washes up on the shores of N. Sanity Beach and vows to defeat Cortex and rescue Tawna from his fortress, with the help of a native mask spirit named Aku Aku who wants Crash to take down Cortex so he'll stop polluting the islands. Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back (1. One year after the original game, Cortex turns to Crash for help in an effort to prevent the planet Earth from facing certain doom. All the planets in the solar system will align soon, and, according to Cortex, create enough energy to tear the world apart. His solution to the crisis lies in crystals: In the aftermath of the original game he discovered the Master Crystal, but that alone will not be enough - he needs Crash to collect 2. Slave Crystals so he can contain the energy of the planetary alignment and save Earth. There's more to it than that, however.. Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped (1. In the aftermath of Crash 2, an evil elemental mask named Uka Uka is freed from his underground prison, and is revealed to have been the true mastermind behind Neo Cortex's schemes. Seeing as Crash had already collected all the crystals and gems on Earth at the end of Crash 2 and the planet is left without a proper power source for Cortex to use for his next scheme, Uka Uka decides to recruit a scientist by the name of N. Tropy to create the Time Twister, a time machine which Cortex and Uka Uka can use to retrieve the crystals from past and future eras. With the help of Uka Uka's counterpart, Aku Aku, Crash and Coco Bandicoot race to the Time Twister to collect the crystals again before Cortex and Uka Uka get a chance to do so. Crash Team Racing (1. The cast of the previous three games decide to organize a go- karting championship for no apparent reason, until an invading alien named Nitros Oxide arrives, claiming to be the greatest racer in the galaxy and inviting the people of Earth to bring forth their fastest racer to compete against him in a race. Should Oxide win the race, however, he threatens to turn the planet into an intergalactic parking lot and make slaves of all its natives, so the logical thing to do is to organize a championship to see who gets the honour of racing against Oxide and saving Earth once again. Crash Bash (2. 00. The Great Uka Uka decides that it's time to settle his conflict with Aku Aku once and for all, but Aku Aku informs him that they can't fight directly as it is forbidden by the ancients, so he instead suggests that they hold a contest to determine the resolution. Uka Uka relents, and they summon Crash and Cortex to choose their partners. However, Cortex chooses too many players (Koala Kong, Dingodile, N. Brio, Tiny Tiger, and newcomer Rilla Roo), while Crash only has Coco by his side. Aku Aku forces Cortex to relinquish Tiny and Dingodile to the good side to make both sides even, and the contest finally starts. Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex (2. Intending to make up for his past failures, Cortex creates a secret weapon to destroy Crash — a bandicoot named Crunch. To give Crunch the power he needs to accomplish this, Cortex frees the Elementals, a group of masks with destructive powers overearth, water, fire, and air. Meanwhile, Crash and his friends become aware of the natural disasters occurring due to the Elementals, and use Coco's new Portal Chamber to once again collect crystals in order to seal away the Elementals again and stop Crunch and Cortex at all costs. This was the first game to make a leap to a next- gen console, developed by Traveler's Tales' Knutsford division and originally released on the Play. Station 2 and later ported to the Xbox and Nintendo Game. Cube. Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure (XS in Europe, 2. Cortex develops the Planetary Minimizer and uses it to shrink the earth. Crash learns of this and sets off to retrieve yet more crystals so that Coco can reverse the effects. This is the first game developed by Vicarious Visions. This is also the first Crash game developed for a handheld console (the Game Boy Advance). The selection of. Video Game Settings makes this game a bit of a portable version of Crash 2, with a bit of Crash 3 thrown in. Crash Bandicoot 2: N- Tranced (2. After the previous game ended with Cortex trapped in his destroyed space station and lost in space, Uka Uka decides to make N. Tropy into his right- hand man in his place. Tropy's first act under Uka Uka's employ is to look into the future, and sees a vision of himself surrounded by Crash, Coco, and Crunch. He interprets this as the bandicoots joining their side, so he brings out a new recruit named N. Trance, with the intent on making the bandicoots Brainwashed and Crazy. They proceed to pull the bandicoots into their dimensional hideout, but Aku Aku interferes when they attempt to take Crash, and the villains unknowingly end up taking Fake Crash. Crash must now travel between dimensions, gathering crystals, freeing his friends and Fake Crash from the hypnotism, and stopping N. Tropy and N. Trance from doing any further harm. The second portable game. This one ends with Uka Uka witnessing his failure yet again and deciding to forgo all dragons and take on Crash himself. This plot thread is Left Hanging. This App Can Choose Your Best Photos For You. Android: If your phone’s storage is running low, you might want to start deleting some low- quality photos from your phone or backing it up with an app like Google Photos. The photo app Eye. Em announced an update on Wednesday that uses artificial intelligence to pick out your best photos. Though Eye. Em is mostly a place where photographers sell their photos, this feature can be helpful for figuring out which photos to post to other social media and for sorting through photos you should delete. Eye. Em Selects is only available to Android users, but the company plans to add the feature to i. Phone apps in an upcoming update. Eye. Em has already created a similar app, called The Roll, on i. OS. The Roll ranks your photos and adds keywords to them so you can search for your photos more easily. The app has since been discontinued in the United States, but many of its features are available on Eye. Em Selects. Picking out your best photos from your photostream isn’t a totally new feature—Google Photos has a similar feature and Gallery Doctor is an app that identifies bad or duplicate photos. Eye. Em has a collection of photos posted with Eye. Em Selects. In the album, there are artsy photos of landscapes, but there are also low- quality selfies, and weirdly there’s a photo of eggs with a quote from the Bible inserted above. It’s not a foolproof feature, but it does let you revisit old photos you’ve forgotten to post, and it’s a helpful tool for when you’re unsure or when you don’t want to sort through all your photos.
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